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Until now, he's been the head of Global Formats at NBCUniversal, overseeing a team in charge of international sales and production of the Comcast unit's formats around the world. Now, he's joining a Burbank, Calif.-based multimedia company focused on U.S. Hispanics, taking a role as its Chief Content Officer.

The end of model year clearance events are on across the nation, as auto dealers seek to make way for newly arrived 2018 model vehicles. As a result, a host of dealer associations have substantially increased their spot activity at broadcast TV, as last week’s Media Monitors TV Spot Ten report indicates. Chevrolet made the biggest move.

The FCC has adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comment on updates to rules for full power and Class A stations which reflect the digital transition and completion of the post-incentive auction, current technology, and/or Commission practices.

Today is the first day of school across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Region, and advertisers were keenly aware of the shopping needs of parents going in to the Labor Day holiday weekend. Three top brick-and-mortar retailers used spot cable to help get customers in the doors — and at the checkout kiosks.

It's been a thorn in the side of broadcast television station ownership groups such as Nexstar Media Group for years. Now, in preparation for new retransmission consent fee deals with the companies that own the free-to-air TV stations MVPDs profit from in their cable television services, Dish has decided to pass the cost on to its customers.

Here's a statistic broadcast TV stations heavily invested in live sports play-by-play may not like to digest: Your audience has not only a touch of grey, but it's becoming a Silver Convention. That's according to newly released data from Magna Global.

The company's share value has declined by 36.4% over the last month. But, is a rebound on the way for Gray Television?  Analysts at Zacks Equity Research think so.

There will be no "Big Bang" involving any affiliate switches in some 32 Nielsen DMAs across the U.S. for Gray Television. A new multi-year renewal of the publicly traded broadcast company's station affiliation agreements with CBS Television has been reached.

Key Wall Street financial analyst house MoffettNathanson finds that the rates of decline for both total linear — including vMVPDs — and traditional linear excluding the likes of SlingTV accelerated "to new all-time worsts" in Q3. It prompted the analysts to simply ask, "Can the linear business be saved?"

One of the nation's largest media companies serving Hispanic consumers has added a UHF property set to shift channels as part of the FCC's post-Incentive Auction repack process. It's in Texas' state capital, where this company enjoys already owns two TV stations — along with a pair of FMs. Kalil & Co. served as the exclusive broker in this transaction.

That's a question Borrell Associates posed in its Fall 2002 survey of local advertising agencies, and the answer is great news for TVB leaders and those on the sales side of free-to-air television stations across the U.S. — in particular low-power stations in markets where opportunities abound.

"Despite challenges in the quarter, including Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the loss of certain technical school advertisers versus last year and mainly transaction-related one-time charges, Sinclair stations continued to deliver," says Sinclair Broadcast Group President/CEO Chris Ripley. But, total revenue was down in Q3, as was Sinclair's operating income. As a result, its net income shrank by 24 cents per share — missing the consensus street estimate by a dime. Investors reacted by selling SBGI stock in the first two hours of Wednesday's trading. 

Don't think for a minute that a lack of Olympics-related programming, and the dollars that go with it, are single-handedly responsible for the year-over-year comparison when looking at how TV performed in Q3 2017. There's more to the story, the Standard Media Index Q3 report released Monday afternoon suggests.

This week, media executives from across Latin America will be among the participants at C21's Content Americas conference in Miami. NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises will have a presence, and two Telemundo executives will be in the spotlight at panels set for Tuesday and Thursday, respectively.

You know you're in Washington when a non-elected agency Commissioner thanks its Chairman for a whole lot of assigned reading between now and Dec. 13. Republican Michael O'Rielly took a moment before the Thanksgiving holiday to thank FCC Chairman Ajit Pai for circulating to all Commissioners the items for the Dec. 14 Open Meeting. And, he said, "I look forward to reading each one," before commenting on his views on some of the key agenda items.